590 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Veniliornis neglectus Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, II, 1901, 99 (Divala, 

 Chiriqui, Nov. 9, 1900 [W.W. Brown]; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs); Auk, XXIV, 

 1907, 293 (El Pozo de Terraba, three specimens (Underwood). 



Bangs Collection : Pozo Azul de Pirris (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum : El Pozo de Terraba (Carriker). Three specimens. 



This bird was first taken in Costa Rica by Cherrie at Palmar de 



Terraba, where he secured one specimen, recording it as Dendrobates 



cecilice (Expl. Zool., 46). He says that it must be a very rare bird, 



for but one was seen. In 1906 Underwood secured three birds at El 



Pozo, a few miles down the Rio Grande from Palmar, and in 1907 I 



also secured three birds at the same place, finding them in some low 



trees on the edge of a new clearing near the river. The three birds 



were all together in the same tree, and I was fortunate to secure them 



all, for no others were seen during the trip. 



326. Celeus loricatus (Reichenbach). 



Meiglyptes loricatus Reichenbach, Scansores Picinae, 1854, 405, pi. 681, fig. 

 4495-6. 



Celeus loricatus Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S., 1879, 533. — Zeledon, An. Mus. 

 Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 124 (Talamanca and Jimenez, three specimens). — 

 Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 432 (no C. R. specimens). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1895, 442 (Costa Rica to 

 Ecuador). 



Bangs Collection: Carrillo (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo. 



Carnegie Museum: Carrillo and Rio Sicsola (Carriker). Three 



specimens. 



This handsome species is not only very rare in Costa Rica, but 

 throughout its extensive range. Lawrence described a female from 

 Panama under the name of C. squamatus, which was probably only a 

 well marked adult. I have not been able to make a satisfactory com- 

 parison of Costa Rican and Panaman specimens of this species with 

 birds from the supposed type locality (Peru), but one poor skin from 

 Ecuador being available, from which nothing could be definitely 

 learned concerning their real relationship. Costa Rican and Panaman 

 skins are identical, but it is not improbable that when compared with 

 good South American material they will prove to be subspecifically 

 distinct, in which case Cassin's name of C. mentalis will become 

 available for the northern subspecies. 



I succeeded in securing but three specimens of this rare bird in 



